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Montasque posted:I try to imagine Donald J Trump in the general election and every time I try I start laughing. I feel like I should be worried but I feel nothing. This is too surreal.
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Cruz's whole plan was based on the theory that Donald would crater out and his supporters would come to his side.
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Montasque posted:I try to imagine Donald J Trump in the general election and every time I try I start laughing. Sometime in the 1950s a secret conference of all of the fascists, ancaps, theocrats and segregationists in the US sacrificed a newborn child on a black altar and sent the country careening into the Bizarro Dimension. This reality has become apparant slowly over decades, and this is finally when the mask comes off completely
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Jewel Repetition posted:For context, their last poll had Cruz 30 Trump 23. That poll is pre-Palin too. Unstumpable
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TheTatteredKing posted:If Cruz gets crushed does his people go home? They might be thinking his people will spite vote against Trump A very large portion of his people will vote Trump. Look at any poll, Cruz voters' second choice by huge margins is Trump
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TheTatteredKing posted:If Cruz gets crushed does his people go home? They might be thinking his people will spite vote against Trump His core group of 9-14% of insane-o conservatives will be there till the bitter end. And in the general turn out for Trump.
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TheTatteredKing posted:I feel like I should be worried but I feel nothing. This is too surreal. I was more worried before when Cruz was the clear frontrunner in Iowa, the Donald is practically a relief in comparison.
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pathetic little tramp posted:He's dropping that factoid, he thinks, close enough to the caucus that it gets him some votes, but with not enough time to vet the fact that he's actually on his wife's billions of taxpayer bailout funded gold cadillac healthcare plan. He's pumping everything into not losing Iowa, but he's absolutely wrecked for anything else. No, there is a shorter answer, as a US senator he is eligible for a government healthcare plan which he apparently won't take for idiotic pandering reasons.
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Nah, Cruz as nominee was and still is the optimal outcome for anyone who hasn't lost their mind yet because he'll be utterly stomped in the general. Trump in the general is genuinely uncharted territory, nobody knows what happens next
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There goes my brokered convention. Trump is going to walk in with 80% of the delegates lmao
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Three Olives posted:No, there is a shorter answer, as a US senator he is eligible for a government healthcare plan which he apparently won't take for idiotic pandering reasons. I think he's also full of poo poo. BCBS is most definitely still in the Texas market. He said it like BCBS just straight up dropped them at the end of the year, but nope that is not true.
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I just don't understand the donor class thought process. That article before was really helpful. I always thought they were exploiting the tea party but really they were pulling the wool over their own eyes.
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TheTatteredKing posted:I just don't understand the donor class thought process. That article before was really helpful. I always thought they were exploiting the tea party but really they were pulling the wool over their own eyes. Yeah people kept saying the GOP hates Cruz but it's incredible watching the long knives actually come out on him. For me, personally, that's the point where we're really through the looking glass
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TheTatteredKing posted:I just don't understand the donor class thought process. That article before was really helpful. I always thought they were exploiting the tea party but really they were pulling the wool over their own eyes. 
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blablablabla posted:Cruz's whole plan was based on the theory that Donald would crater out and his supporters would come to his side. I think the plan was to stay low-key and win the ground game without much fanfare until the results showed up. Problem was that the polling showed Trump what was happening, and he took action. Now scrutiny is ramping up on Cruz to an absurd degree, and the Party knives are finally coming out in earnest.
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Xenophon posted:This CNN piece dropped today too! quote:Graham, for instance, said that Trump was "crazy" with an "insane" foreign policy and Cruz was a "rigid ideologue," both of which would be problematic against Hillary Clinton, even if voters view her as a "dishonest" candidate, he said.
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Like me, former Presidential Candidate Lindsay Graham.
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no no no hold on nominating Trump instead of Cruz won't help the GOP survive just because a ~less serious candidate~ loses the general, simply the act of being forced to loving nominate loving Trump marks them like naming a horse after an enemy and giving it a seat in the senate marked Caligula, am I the crazy one here?Patter Song posted:
Vox Nihili posted:That was Harry Enten, and he's gotten virtually everything wrong. He is very bad and his dumb articles make me not want to read 538. maybe we'll get back to this when we've had electoral reform and time travel, but before the states balkanize in WW3. Montasque posted:
 PleasingFungus posted:there's mocking jeb, and there's posting photosets of his teeth, repeatedly, over multiple days.
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Montasque posted:New Emerson College #Iowa Poll: It's almost as though this "Trump" fellow simply can't be stumped.
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pathetic little tramp posted:He's dropping that factoid, he thinks, close enough to the caucus that it gets him some votes, but with not enough time to vet the fact that he's actually on his wife's billions of taxpayer bailout funded gold cadillac healthcare plan. He's pumping everything into not losing Iowa, but he's absolutely wrecked for anything else. This is such a weird lie like, how can anyone believe a US Senator with a wife in wall street and two kids would not have healthcare. Unless...are we SURE he is no longer a Canadian???
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My band teacher wanted me to switch from drums to clarinet. Yeah gently caress no
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Aliquid posted:There goes my brokered convention. Trump is going to walk in with 80% of the delegates lmao Now, walk into the club like "what up? I got a big bloc"
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CortezFantastic posted:This is such a weird lie like, how can anyone believe a US Senator with a wife in wall street and two kids would not have healthcare. Unless...are we SURE he is no longer a Canadian??? Unless Ted Cruz isn't lying. Is he crazy enough to let his kids go uninsured for political points?
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William Bear posted:Unless Ted Cruz isn't lying. Is he crazy enough to let his kids go uninsured for political points? Maybe he knows they aren't his after all
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Jewel Repetition posted:Now, walk into the club like "what up? I got a big bloc" This is going to be Trump at the convention: https://vine.co/v/OUljvzWBBiU
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The final stage: Acceptance. https://twitter.com/INJO/status/690276767089725442
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CortezFantastic posted:This is such a weird lie like, how can anyone believe a US Senator with a wife in wall street and two kids would not have healthcare. Unless...are we SURE he is no longer a Canadian??? You know, he was half-Canadian when he had his kids, because he only renounced the Canadian citizenship last year. Does that confer citizenship on them?
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William Bear posted:Unless Ted Cruz isn't lying. Is he crazy enough to let his kids go uninsured for political points? 
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:Carly Fiorina Dental Report dental plan... carly needs braces....
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pathetic little tramp posted:He's dropping that factoid, he thinks, close enough to the caucus that it gets him some votes, but with not enough time to vet the fact that he's actually on his wife's billions of taxpayer bailout funded gold cadillac healthcare plan. He's pumping everything into not losing Iowa, but he's absolutely wrecked for anything else.
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God Bless Sarah Palin
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Can we still bask in the glow that is Sarah Palin, Kingmaker? And using her 2008 talking points as if 7 years of an Obama presidency hadn't happened?
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